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Metals flat after jobless report

English: A frame from a screencast from the US House Financial Committee full committee hearing “An Examination of the Extraordinary Efforts by the Federal Reserve Bank to Provide Liquidity in the Current Financial Crisis which took place Tuesday, February 10, 2009, 1:00pm, 2128 Rayburn House Office Building. The frame shows Chairmen Ben Bernanke responding to a question posited by John E. Sweeney Full Committee (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Precious Metals are mostly flat this morning as the release of the weekly jobless claims report has had little effect on Gold and Silver. The four week moving average of new claims rose by 1,500, while the week to week change was flat. The main focus of the markets continues to be the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium, and, more specifically, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s speech Friday. Daryl Guppy, chief executive at Guppy Traders, said, “We are sitting back on this (long term uptrend) point (in the stock market) so we either see a strong reaction away or a strong break away from this level (in response to Bernanke). And that’s the key factor we’re seeing across the board, because we are sitting on critical levels.”

Europe is clearly taking a backseat to the Fed’s potential monetary easing announcement, but the European Central Bank (ECB) is readying for an ECB Governing Council meeting next week. James Reid of Deutsche Bank said, “For now, Europe is in a holding pattern ahead of clarity surrounding the next move in the great ECB bond buying maneuverings, and the U.S. is in limbo ahead of Bernanke’s Jackson Hole appearance tomorrow. For the latter, speculation mounts that Bernanke won’t say anything overly new in his speech.”

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